Yahoo Works with Google on End-to-End Email Encryption

Yahoo is developing end-to-end email encryption, and working with Google to ensure the security of emails passing between the two providers, the company announced at the Black Hat security conference on Thursday. The security measures are expected to be implemented by 2015.

The encryption tool will be coded using OpenPGP, the same standard as Google, and Yahoo “is working closely with Google to ensure that [its] implementations of end-to-end encryption are compatible,” VP of Information Security Alex Stamos said in a statement according to TechCrunch. The encryption feature will eventually be native to Yahoo Mail mobile apps.

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